We succeed one door at a time!

Ohio Citizen Action has pioneered many of the approaches and techniques now widely followed by citizens groups across the nation. Our campaigns use the power of community organizing to convince major industries to prevent pollution at their facilities. We even wrote the handbook on Good Neighbor Campaigns.

Are we effective? Yes! We helped convince American Municipal Power to cancel plans for building a new coal plant along the Ohio River in Meigs County. The area currently has four coal plants within a 12 mile radius. On mountaintop removal, we were part of a coalition that won a policy change which would allow few, if any, new mountaintop removal permits to be approved. We convinced Ohio State University President Gordon Gee to step down from the board of Massey Energy, the coal company leading the charge to extract coal from our Appalachian Mountains by blowing the tops off of them.

Today, our campaigns literally dot the map. Their success relies on individuals just like you who go into neighborhoods, petitioning, fundraising, dropping off information, and recruiting members and volunteers. We’ve made over 8.5 million front porch visits in our years of serving Ohio. We know that’s what keeps us growing and vital, and what makes our work a success.

Ohio Citizen Action member Jessica Kramer of Cleveland joined a small protest against coal-fired power plants Tuesday outside of the John S. Knight Center where FirstEnergy Corp. held its annual shareholder meeting. Inside, shareholders considered two shareholder resolutions critical of coal. FirstEnergy’s merger with Allegheny Energy of Pennsylvania makes the company heavily dependent on coal.

Clean Energy votes

Members supporting clean energy in Ohio as of October 27, 2018

50,405 Ohioans have signed our support statement in person at their door.

2,050 members have sent postcards to Ohio legislators, urging them to fix the wind setback rule in Ohio

15,919 Ohio Citizen Action members have sent handwritten letters to their state legislators in support of clean energy.

7,830 Ohio Citizen Action members have called their state legislators, asking them to oppose HB239 a nd SB 155, the latest coal bailout requests by Duke Energy, FirstEnergy, Dayton Power & Light and American Electric Power.